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Auf der Vogelseite schrieb ich vor vielen Jahren über die Barbie-Girl-Interrupted-Amsel - ein Vogel, der morgens zum Aufwachen immer die gleichen 5 Noten pfiff.
An unserem aktuellen Wohnort gibt's zwei ähnliche Vögel:
- Der Waschmaschinen-Pieper, der einen unnötig in den Keller runtersteigen lässt, weil du glaubst, die Wäsche sei fertig.
- der Auto-Alarm-Pfeifer, der wie eine in der Ferne ertönende Diebstahlsicherung pfeift

Over the two and a half years
following the 2022 rollout of the 988 national suicide prevention hotline,
the rate of suicides among young people in the United States dropped 11 percent below projections,
decreasing most sharply in states with a higher volume of answered 988 calls, a new study has found.

Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline
Suicides among young adults dropped most sharply in states that actively embraced the 988 crisis line, new research has found.

The telcos keep falling.
Dutch telecom provider Odido has been hit by a major cyberattack. Criminals gained access to a file containing the data of 6.2 million accounts.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2602080-hack-bij-odido-gegevens-miljoenen-kl…

Hack bij Odido, gegevens miljoenen klanten in handen van criminelen
Onder de gegevens vallen onder meer volledige naam, adres en woonplaats, mobiele nummer, klantnummer, e-mailadres, rekeningnummer, geboortedatum en nummers en geldigheidsdatum van identiteitsbewijzen.

How did the Urban Network Flow Adapt to the Collapse of the Carola Bridge?
Jyotirmaya Ijaradar, Ning Xie, Lei Wei, Sebastian Pape, Matthias K\"orner, Meng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19947 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.19947 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.19947
arXiv:2603.19947v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The unexpected collapse of the Carola Bridge in Dresden, Germany, provides a rare opportunity to characterise how urban network traffic adapts to an unexpected infrastructure disruption. This study develops a data-driven analytical framework using traffic data from the Dresden traffic management system to assess the short-term impacts of the disruption. By combining statistical comparisons of pre- and post-collapse motorised traffic distributions, peak-hour shifts, and Park-and-Ride data analyses, the framework reveals how traffic dynamics and traveller choices adjust under infrastructure disruption. Results reveal that the two closest bridges, the Albert and Marien Bridges, absorb the majority of the diverted motorised traffic. In particular, the daily traffic volume on the Albert bridge increases by up to 81%, which is equivalent to 3.5 hours of traffic operating with maximum flow. Peak hours on critical links are significantly prolonged, reaching up to 250 minutes. Besides redistribution, the overall daily motorised traffic crossing the Elbe river declines by approximately 8,000 vehicles, while Park-and-Ride usage increases by up to 188%, suggesting a potential travel mode shift after the disruption. The study reveals the patterns of traffic redistribution following an unexpected disruption and provides insights for resilience planning and emergency traffic management.
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Day Five in the Improv Narrative house, and we're in the format I like most really. A few instructive games in the first half and a couple of longer narrative stories in the second half.
The island game was supposed to teach something about not deliberately getting obstructive.
A scene where your players are told they are on one island and must end up at some point all on the other one the other side of the stage.
Set a scene, make some characters, but nobody said it was supposed to be difficult to get from one island to the other.
Yet barriers are deliberately thrown up, actually imaginary barriers since the whole thing is imaginary after all. Why should there be sharks or a quest for a boat or the sea deep and cold.
You can just wade across. You can just have a boat. You can just levitate yourself over with your hive mind psychic abilities.
Unsure about this.
There must be conflict and peril and challenges which are mastered in a story, you can't set up a hero's quest only to have the hero just happen to have a holy grail in the stationary cupboard. Already got one you see. Use it for storing pens.
Still. Finding the crowbar doesn't have to be a quest. There can just be one in the boot. Don't let things get bogged down in difficulty.
Watched a story about a lazy fellow falling into a life of crime and villainy because of his tardiness and fulfilling his teacher's prophecy that he would indeed end up as a criminal if he didn't buck up his ideas. Good repeated themes of characters making lists of his failures and nice stage-focus work when everyone was on stage at once.
Played a preacher organizing a wedding in a story about friends running a hotel.
Fun to have Reverend Priest finding sin everywhere again. Easy wipe-off sin in this case. We may have come to an end too early. Perhaps not enough obstructions put in the way. 😆
#improv #london #hooplaImpro

Grr and argh.
The people who make government websites generally tend to do a halfway decent job of meeting the spec, but they really really need to learn to push back when the spec is FUCKING STUPID.
Having just completed my "Annual Filing" with Companies House - and why is that even a thing, we're not posting fucking vellum to Victorian clerks who scurry up ladders to deposit the sacred paperwork in the appropriate filing cabinet any more - I got a new scary emai…

Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, costing <50% of Veo 3.1 Fast and meant for "high-volume video applications", and affirms its commitment to video generation tools (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/03/31/veo-3-1-lite/

Google commits to video generation, announces Veo 3.1 Lite
Following OpenAI’s Sora exit last week, Google today said it’s committed to offering video generation while announcing Veo 3.1 Lite.

Das Shirt von @… kam heut an. Mit einigen Aufklebern, über die sich mein Laptop freut.
Top Quali und Preis.
Vielen Dank nach Flensburg! :-)
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PS: Habs vorm Fotografen nicht gebügelt, sry ^^

Also apologies to folks following me, I’m not usually this high volume, but I’m sick (and have been for a couple days) and this is the first day I’ve been able to properly rest.
(And yes, this is what I’m doing with it 😂)

Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, costing <50% of Veo 3.1 Fast and meant for "high-volume video applications", and affirms its commitment to video generation tools (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/03/31/veo-3-1-lite/

Google commits to video generation, announces Veo 3.1 Lite
Following OpenAI’s Sora exit last week, Google today said it’s committed to offering video generation while announcing Veo 3.1 Lite.